Editing Smoke screen (section)

===Naval warfare===
[[File:USS Lexington (CV-2) steams through smoke screen 1929.jpg|thumb|{{USS|Lexington|CV-2}} obscured by a smoke screen, 1929]]
There are a number of early examples of using [[early thermal weapons|incendiary weapons]] at sea, such as [[Greek fire]], [[stink bomb|stinkpot]]s, [[fire ship]]s, and incendiaries on the decks of [[turtle ship]]s, which also had the effect of creating smoke. The naval smoke screen is often said to have been proposed by Sir [[Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald|Thomas Cochrane]] in 1812, although Cochrane's proposal was as much an asphyxiant as an obscurant. It is not until the early twentieth century that there is clear evidence of deliberate use of large scale naval smokescreens as a major tactic.

During the [[American Civil War]], the first smoke screen was used by the ''[[CSS Robert E. Lee|R.E. Lee]]'', [[Blockade runner|running the blockade]] and escaping the {{USS|Iroquois|1859|6}}.

The use of smoke screens was common in the naval battles of [[World War I]] and [[World War II]].